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邯郸学院外国语学院 School of Foreign Languages of Han dan College 英美小说选读学期小论文 论文题目： 浅析《泄密的心》 Title： The Analysis of The Tell-Tale Heart 专 业： 英语（师范类） ______ 班 级： 2012级英教2班 学 号： 20120140012053 姓 名： 苑玉瑾 __ _ The Tell-Tale Heart Published 1843 1.Summery The narrator murdered an old man, for a freakish reason that one of his victim’s eye “resembles that of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it.”(sele,134). He waited for the chance, and committed the crime one night, after which he soberly deposited the dead body under the floor and destroyed all the traces. Policemen came, but they detected nothing of the murder. However, when he fancied he heard the old man’s heart beating louder and louder, he cannot stand the psychological pressure any longer. Thus he confessed to his horrible deed. The?Tell-Tale?Heart is one of a number of Poe stories that focus on an obsessed protagonist/narrator. Indeed, what holds the story together and holds the attention of the reader is the single-minded voice of the madman who, even as he denies his madness, tells a story that confirms it. Poes use of a first-person narrator obsessively recounting a past event is an important element in his contribution to the short story form as a highly unified aesthetic entity. Poes?theory?that?every element in a short prose story should contribute to its overall effect is exemplified by the fact that the protagonist/narrator is obsessively concerned with his irrational desire to kill the old man because of the old mans eye and by his rational method of proceeding. Poes stories are often characterized by a psychological mania held in check by the rational control of the narrati